On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:47:42 -0000, Daniele Terdina  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> screen mode on a standard QL.  By entering supervisor mode, the system
>> variables are no longer accessible and the space (32768 bytes?) at  
>> $28000
>> can be used as the second screen.  However, you have no access to TRAP
>
> Entering supervisor is not enough: you also need to disable interrupt 2  
> on
> non-Minerva QL, which Jan wanted to avoid to have his interrupt routine
> called. If he can do without his interrupt routine, then it is easisly
> feasible.
> You can't use most TRAPs, but a few still seem to work, like the TRAP#1  
> used
> to communicate to the IPC (D0=$11), useful to be able to directly read
> keyboard status.
>

Yes I forget the exact details and do not have the books to hand.

However all Jan wanted to do was to switch between the two screens in  
order to give a game.  I am not certain, but surely most of the QL  
platform games and the ones by Damon Chaplin, such as Spook and  
Speedfreaks - the source code for these games appears on my site at:

http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/pdsoftware.html


-- 
Rich Mellor
RWAP Services
URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk

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